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reply posted on 25-5-2012 @ 11:11 AM by bastet11
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Your wife sounds a bit like a sociopath. You say postpartum depression, which of course can be very real..but to me it sounds like she is an extreme attention w***e (and please don't take that in the bad way..I was trying to think of a nicer term but that is all I could come up with). This is evidenced by how when you were finally making your break from her during your split, she started again with trying to reel you back in. Without maybe even knowing it herself, she must have your attention on her in any way..be it positive or negative. The fact that she had an affair should be the only answer you need. You will have to extricate yourself from her life but remain firmly rooted in your daughter's. Barring some crazy circumstance like lightning strikes her and she suddenly becomes a different personality, she absolutely will not change. She knows you are crazy for her and will do all you can to stay and she will use it against you. The saddest part is, there is a little girl involved that needs two parents, not just one. Two loving parents, anyway. Do not let this woman drive you from your child. Stay a part of her life, but distanced from the mother. She needs to know you are doing all you can.
Take this from a girl whose father left both of his kids to be raised by a single mom, and then has spent my entire adult life bemoaning his decisions. I am now 34 years old and barely a phone call goes by from my dad as he goes on and on about woulda shoulda coulda. The fact is, he didn't and that is not going to change for anything. So don't be that dad who backs away. Be your daughter's knight in shining armor. When you focus on her, you will start to understand the problems of the mother will fade.
Hopefully she won't pull a psycho and make up stories about you to keep you away. Good luck!


reply posted on 25-5-2012 @ 11:20 AM by DoctorMobius
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I'm sorry to hear of your situation,but your wife sounds like a peal piece of work. Just don't give her another chance.


reply posted on 25-5-2012 @ 11:54 AM by loueber
Originally posted by digital01anarchy
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Sounds like a classic i only want someone who doesn't want me type of person.



+1


reply posted on 25-5-2012 @ 01:09 PM by Annee
Originally posted by bastet11
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post by SoulVoid



Your wife sounds a bit like a sociopath. You say postpartum depression, which of course can be very real..but to me it sounds like she is an extreme attention w***e.


Possible. She may also be Bi-Polar.

My ex-mother-in-law was a serious case of Bi-Polar. For some reason men are attracted to her because her HIGHS are so high. Her energy is off the charts. But then she drops so quick - - the man thinks he did something wrong.

My advice is always: You have to be ONE before you can be TWO.

If you are not independently stable - - - marriage is not for you.


reply posted on 25-5-2012 @ 01:39 PM by carbon6667
I have to thank you for posting your situation. The same all happened to me starting 12 years ago with the exception that when TSHTF I hired a lawyer and got a very good custody/visitation schedule, which basically ruled the mother to stop messing around with the emotions of my daughter and myself. When you have a “stipulation drawn up, MAKE SURE the WORDING in EACH paragraph specifies EXACTLY what you want. This hasn’t stopped the mother from breaking the rules but when she does I have the option to take her back to court for contempt, which I already have three times. When I feel an “episode” coming on, I carry recording devices along with me to prove my case. I WISH I was smart in the beginning and had done this, but we live and learn.

The mother is bi-polar with tendencies to “flip out” and lie about things out of the blue. Even cut herself on her arm once while we were together to try to have me arrested. I am lucky I knew the police in my town that also knew the stories of her whole family being crazy. The police incidents were many mainly because I walked away from her ranting and gave up on listening to her lies.

Things between us have been great for close to year now. No episodes, no court,
It was a lazy Saturday and I had fell asleep at 6pm watching TV. I woke up and saw more then 10 missed calls from her mother, stepfather and herself, not explaining what had happened but just to call them back over something important. So when I called back at 10:30 at night, her stepfather answered and started to tell me the story of how my friend’s father (who is in his 80’s) threatened my daughter.

My daughter said that her neighbor (my best friends father) who they live a few houses up from, threatened to “shoot” her and the friend she was with when their dog a (Pit Bull) got loose and ran into their yard and was barking at my friends father. He was working on trimming the bushes in the yard and apparently had grabbed a stick shooing the dog away. I have known these people for over 30 years and know there one the kindest well-mannered families I know. When I first heard the story coming from her stepfather (the same guy that took my good hospitality back stabbed, and cheated me). I thought this has to be another one of the mother’s evil plans again. Then her mother got on the phone with a despicable tone in her voice and said “where were you while your daughters life was being threatened”! and onto say the “step-father is more of a father then you are”! And on and on it went digging into my soul saying hurtful things. Now how did I become the bad guy? Now it just gets worse. My daughter is not speaking to me. The mother has asked me not to contact her with exception of the home phone (which I think they have setup so they record and listen in). I wrote my daughter on FB which I haven’t received a reply. My friend wasn’t there at the time but he said his father never said anything like he would shoot anyone much less two 12 year old girls.

The more and more I go out into town, which I hardly do anymore, I hear the mother’s horrible lies, each one more or less sinister I don’t know. Like how the mother had told someone in my daughters school that she was raped and I’m not the father. Or the $25,000 dollars I invested in giving them a better life by starting a business of their choice to run themselves and eventually take over. To hear through the grapevine the mother lied to her landlord (a mutual friend) about how I ruined their business.

My girl is 12 now and we’ve had a great relationship of respect and honesty but she’s becoming a teenager and wants to spend more time with her friends, which I am happy to do but I think I gave in too much. I always give in to make things calmer and easier, but in the long run makes things worse.

Lately I’ve become very depressed and like you said just want to run and hide from the mistakes I made. That worked great when I once had a lot of money, but don’t anymore. I haven’t had steady work in over a year and I consider myself lucky I have a few friends that throw me work from time to time. Gas here is now $4.15 a gallon and we do a lot of driving in my area. The list goes on and on. Basically I’ve lost all my motivation to finish anything I start. I sleep three times a day sometimes. It’s a struggle to even eat. Overall I find myself wishing for everything I need. I wish I had that feeling back like when I was a kid, a sense of purpose.

Thanks for reading this far if you have. I hope it helps your situation in some way. Honestly, I was hoping it helped my own by writing it down but I don’t feel any better. At this point I just wish Pleiadians would come take me off this ridiculous planet. Sorry.. cool planet, rotten leaders…


reply posted on 25-5-2012 @ 09:57 PM by intrptr
Originally posted by SoulVoid
Damm,
This hit the spot...

Yah, it did for me too. Looks like you have found similarities between these narcissist videos and her behavior. Only you can tell for sure if that is so. We sit here behind a keyboard reading about somebody else we really know nothing about. But if it clicks for you, then study all you can about the behavior. There are a ton of these "teach" videos about it. The ones you brought with your link are good. I know because I have problems with my family in this regard and I can see the symptoms are mirrored there.

This gives you power to break the spell, the hold she has had over you all this time. Knowing the behavior lets you detach emotionally next time you see it. You don't have to react the same way anymore. Give her the silent treatment for a change. Thats a behavior she can understand. Don't react to stuff she does to punish you, just stare back and go about your business. That lets her know you no longer tolerate that kind of behavior. Even when she ratchets it up (and she will- like taking your daughter out of school) just keep a few notes and hide them for later. Let her screw up by doing these things. That will give you an edge when it comes time to settle.

After all, she is the sick one, not you. Right?


reply posted on 25-5-2012 @ 11:14 PM by Skywatcher2011
Originally posted by intrptr
Originally posted by Skywatcher2011
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I sometimes give someone a silent treatment if I have a grudge against them for something. Does this make me a narcissist????

Because you are even able to ask that question, I think not. Narcissists don't care to self analyze. You might ask yourself where you learned to do that and why you do it though.



I think I am part narcissist and I only say that because part of me has the decency to care about the others' feelings (empathy) and the other is the "I don't care about you" business sense. I am a complex person but I realize that sometimes you have to let others into your world through understanding their needs, while other times you have to protect your own needs. This also falls under human resource management skills.


reply posted on 25-5-2012 @ 11:41 PM by intrptr
reply to post by Skywatcher2011


I agree. Applying labels to others is not advisable. Calling someone a "narcissist", is not as correct as saying someone exhibits "narcissistic tendencies".
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